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Best Wishes to Barry
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Ill with pneumonia, Barry Hannah was forced to cancel a reading in Tallahassee,
What a Way to Go
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Former X-Men illustrator Dave Cockrum passed away on Sunday. According to this CNN article,
Why That Author Will Help You
On Monday, I posted a slightly facetious explanation of why that author won’t help you. I’ve been blessed with assistance from a number of kind-hearted writers so I know that the sarcastic species of authors I detailed on Monday are not alone in the literary landscape.
Like Waiting By The Phone
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Undoubtedly, you have noticed how literary bloggers are impossibly popular with the ladies. Since I prefer for Slushpile.net to remain at least reasonably polite and fit for mixed company,
Why That Author Won’t Help You
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I’ve become one part therapist, two parts bartender, and one part strategist. Loyal Slushpile.net readers email me to ask about getting this or that author to assist in their quest for publication.
Literary Los Angeles
There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West…
Although Robert Plant had hedgerows,
Faulkner’s Vampires
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Syntax of Things pointed out this article in the LA Times about William Faulkner’s vampire film script.
Cracking Open a Hard Case
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So I know this probably marks me as the un-hippest cat around. But, prior to last evening,
Atwood to Appear in DC
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Booker Award-winning Margaret Atwood discusses her new collection of stories, Moral Disorder, at the downtown Washington,
All the King’s Writers
The New York Times had an interesting review of Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story yesterday. What makes Jim Windolf’s examination intriguing is that it’s not just a review of a new novel,
The Heartless Stone
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Over at Beatrice today, I posted a brief note about Tom Zoellner’s The Heartless Stone: A Journey Throught the World of Diamonds,
Firmin Up the Week’s Schedule
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Over at the Litblog Co-Op, the week’s discussion of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage is off to a rousing start.
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